Intergrating CampaignMonitor API
CampaignMonitor is an online email marketing application for designers that allow them to create, send, manage and track branded emails for themselves and their clients with ease.
Currently we have a client who wants to execute an e-marketing campaign, so we are integrating CampaignMontior API with our client’s account for their website.
Some of the benefits of syncing the API with our client’s account own database or CRM software:
Ruby on Rails: The Language of Tomorrow
We have been working in software development for many years and have seen a lot of programming fads come and go, but we feel it’s safe to say the future of development is Ruby on Rails.
ROR developers brag, “It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.” This phrase, “convention over configuration,” is a software design paradigm that tries to decrease the number of decisions a developer has to make, gaining simplicity without losing flexibility.
Supply, Demand, and PHP
There seems to be a demand for PHP programmers lately; we are filling team after team, and more new clients are requesting PHP developers as well. Our recent hiring speed and the demand for these resources has been intense and left us unable to keep up, but we plan on remedying this situation over the weekend.
This Saturday, we are going to utilize our full interview panel with our recruitment department and dedicate the whole day to hiring. We would like to bring on board at least ten PHP guys, maybe more. We’ll see how it goes, and I will keep you updated.
SplendidCRM
SplendidCRM includes an easy to use web interfaces that handles core CRM functionalities like sales, marketing, and customer support. It can maintain a record of all leads/opportunities, track the conversion of leads to customers, maintain customer profiles to recording customer issues and their resolution details, and carry out targeted marketing campaigns.
Starting with little or no cost (the Community Edition), SplendidCRM has multiple editions so you choose the features that are important to you.
Outsystems Agile Platform
Outsystems Agile Platform is an application life cycle management system. This software is a development tool used to develop, maintain, and operate web business application using agile methodologies. The system is made up of four components:
1. The platform server: a collection of services that compliment .NET and JAVA application server installations. This is where web apps are stored and ran.
TimeLive by LiveTec LLC
Our R&D ream is researching three softwares now days; TimeLive, Outsystems Agile and Splendid CRM. Lets go into depth on each of those. Today, we are going to focus on TimeLive.
TimeLive is a timesheet tracking suite developed by LiveTecs LLC. This software was first released online in 2006 as a web-based timesheet; it was also available as a download. Today, TimeLive not only allows you to track time, but also allows you to track and manage projects and bill clients accordingly.
Magento Vs. Zen Cart
Usman
I have mentioned in previous posts that we have been working on shopping cart projects for two different teams. We researched several options for open source shopping carts before starting both projects but stuck with the two most popular: Magento and Zen Cart.
If you’re considering adding a shopping cart to your site, you might be interested in comparing the information we gathered on both Magento and Zen Cart to see which comes closer to meeting your needs.
Here is a simple comparison:
Choosing Zen Cart over Magento
We have been working on a couple of different shopping projects lately. While on one project we are using Magento, the other project we are using Zen cart.
While Magento (see post “Trusted with Magento” ) is probably the more powerful of the two software applications, the client chose Zen Cart. They were looking for easy administration, simple customization, shared hosting, free add-ons, and built in newsletter manager and gift certificates.
Developing iPhone Ideas
Faiz and Shahid
There is an iPhone App for just about everything these days, and more and more people are jumping on that App bandwagon. What hasn’t been developed already is rolling around in the minds of the super creative; and that’s fine by us, if you can think it, we can develop it.
We started another iPhone project this week for an existing client. It’s a mobile visitor’s guide specific to the city of Charlotte. It will be available soon in the iTunes App store. The interface and features are all part of the client’s creative plan. We are just bringing it all to life.
Trusted with Magento
Ahsan Shahzad
Occasionally, a project will require our developers to work with packaged software. This is a very trusting endeavor; some software packages/subscriptions can cost thousands of dollars.
One of our clients has trusted us to work with their Magento Enterprise Edition for their shopping carts. Magento is an open source eCommerce solution that offers merchants flexibility and complete control over their look, content, and functionality of their online store. It is a very expensive subscription, and we are honored to have such trust put into our capable hands.
